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By: Charles W. Boatright
Golf Swing Wrist Action to Lock and Load- Why The Correct Wrist Action in the Golf Swing to Lock, Load and Fitness is Critical to the Golfer
One of the most important components the golfer could incorporate into their golf swing sequence is to preset the correct wrist action in the golf swing into the Lock Position, Shown above in the featured image. Presetting the wrists allows the golfer to take a page out of the baseball swing sequence, where the batter is in the batter’s box unconsciously syncing and presetting their wrists. The batter doesn’t even have to think about their wrists locking and loading while standing in the batter’s box.
For my Kinesiology Research Project I compared the golf swing to the baseball swing to see what natural instinctive motor skills the golfer could used to allow them to overcome the GAP between the practice range and the golf course and eliminate the thinking process. I reviewed thousands of time-lapse film, noted below in Figure No. 2, and compared the two swings. What I found that the two swings had more in common then they had that was different.
This confirm an article written by David Leadbetter in the January 2002 issue of Golf Digest, entitled Your New Swing Starts Here- Eliminate your takeaway mistakes with the swing of the future. The illustration above of the (me) the batter in the batter’s box, in Figure No. 1, along with this article, shows and explains how correct David Leadbetter was in his article how the golfer can use the proactive baseball batter’s position in their golf swing sequence. Starting from a stagnant position in golf is a difficult prospect to perform. The wrist action in the golf swing eliminates this stagnant position. Matter of fact, Justin Thomas uses the wrist action in his golf swing by performing a practice swing to the Lock Position and actually looks back to the head of his club.
The batter doesn’t stand in the batter’s box in a static position of holding their bat waist high over home plate while waiting for the pitch. This would be the static address position in the golfer’s typical swing. The batter, shown in the figure No.2 above, instead of being in a more proactive, definitive, and dynamic position than from the more typical static position of how most golfers start their golf swing.
The static address position is not, by definition, a golf swing sequence. But instead, it is a position. This static position can allow the golfer’s conscious mind to become dominant in their golf swing by thinking, rather than focusing. THINKING IS THE WORSE THING A GOLFER CAN DO. This is like the question posed by Yogi Berra about baseball that can applied to the golf swing sequence just as well, How can you think and hit at the same time? The answer of course, is that the batter or, in this case, the golfer CAN’T think and hit at the same time.
In the movie THE ROCK there is a scene where John Patrick Mason (played by Sean Connery) tells Special Agent Stanley Goodspeed (played by Nicolas Cage) that was facing a threat of being shot to never hesitate when Mason shot first. This is a same theory about the proactive wrist action in the golf swing of presetting the wrists. NEVER HESITATE.
The golfer who thinks places several barriers in their way of executing their golf swing sequence and golf shot. Thinking is just a distraction in executing the golf shot. David Leadbetter, in an article in the January 2002 issue of Golf Digest, had an article entitled Your New Swing Starts Here- Eliminate your takeaway mistakes with the swing of the future. The illustration above, in Figure No. 1, of the batter in the batter’s box, along with this article, shows and explains how the golfer can use the proactive baseball batter’s position in their golf swing sequence just but presetting their wrists.
Using the Baseball Preset Position in the Golf Swing Sequence
My grandfather was my first golf and only coach and sports psychologist, the notes that I took during our sessions became a book I have on KINDLE entitled: MY KINDLE BOOK: THE SPORTS BIBLE- YELLOWSTONE PAPERS
The photograph on the TOP and on my book is my grandfather and grandmother at Yellowstone National Park in 1927.
David Leadbetter used the term Swing of the Future in his article. But, in reality, the swing of the future was a golf swing sequence that my golf coach, my grandfather ,H.Q. (Hemi Quinn) Boatright, taught me in 1970. My golf coach wanted me to be proactive by presetting the correct wrist action in the golf swing. This allowed me to focus with my conscious mind just on the target while directly engaging my subconscious mind’s muscle memory for the golf swing sequence. If you ever played even sandlot baseball, you have used the same wrist action with a SYNC element added to transition from a vertical orientation to a baseball swing’s horizontal position.
Another golf quote was from the movie Caddyshack (Ty Webb- played by Chevy Chase advised Danny Noonan- played by Michael O’Keefe) I’m going to give you a little advice. There’s a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.
The golfer’s conscious mind can do one of two things, THINK or FOCUS. The golfer wants to follow the latter, of focusing the conscious mind on the target, rather than thinking that is a conscious function. Thinking is like the elixir that turned Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde. Thinking doesn’t allow the golfer to get into their golf swing sequence, but rather disrupts their golf swing sequence in the classic golf swing.
Presetting the golfer’s wrists helps the golfer to get into a proactive position by presetting the correct wrist action in the golf swing, like in the baseball swing sequence. I don’t know too many baseball batter’s standing in the BATTER’S BOX struggle with the same problems or issues that golfer does standing on the TEE BOX has. In my KINDLE book above, entitled THE KASPER GOLF & FITNESS COACH, the theme of the book focuses on presetting the correct wrist action that establishes 80 percent of the golf swing, a simple golf swing maneuver.
This golf swing sequence directly engages the subconscious mind, the golfer’s muscle memory. I have TWO key muscle memories that I key-in on to initiate my golf swing. These are my Brachio-Radialis Muscle/Tendon (or BRACHS for short) Palmaris Longus Muscle/Tendon (or Palmer for short) the Pronator Quadratus muscle shown below, in Figure No. 5 and 6.
Presetting the golfer’s wrists helps the golfer to get into a proactive position by presetting the correct wrist action in the golf swing, like in the baseball swing sequence. In my book, THE KASPER GOLF & FITNESS COACH, the theme of the book focuses on presetting the correct wrist action that establishes 80 percent of the golf swing, a simple golf swing maneuver. This golf swing sequence directly engages the subconscious mind, the golfer’s muscle memory. I have one key muscle that I key-in on to initiate my golf swing. See my three Orange Bucket Challenges videos that I did for a local television sports show leading up to the 2021 US OPEN.
In these Three videos, I will introduce, demonstrate, and do four consistent drives to hit and land within 15- feet of my orange bucket for video that I made for WJTV-12 SPORTS ZONE back in June of 2021. I’m using special golf balls that travel one-third (1/3rd) the distance of an actual golf ball up to 100- yards, because the film crew wanted to use only one camera set up where they could show that the videos were not edited in anyway.
The camera crew were concern if I used actual golf balls they couldn’t zoom in tight, or good, enough to catch where my drives were falls in relation to the orange bucket. So this made The Germantown High School, here in Madison, Mississippi the perfect set up hitting what would have been a 295- yard drive on a football field from end zone to end zone.
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For me doing these three (3) videos, the camera crew made a promo for me to use in my golf coaching business. This is below:
The THREE-Part Sync/Preset, COCK and LOCK Position in FIGURE No. 5
The syncing/presetting of the wrists is the first sequence in a three-part golf swing. After presetting the wrists, the golfer is in a proactive, position to then just COCK and LOCK, position, in Figure No. 5 by using a baseball batter technique in Figure No. 2. Initiating the golf swing is the most important part of the golf swing sequence to mentally establish the golf swing. Syncing/Presetting the wrists would be like how most professional golfers use the waggle motion. The preset of the wrists allows the golfer to COCK, LOCK and LOAD their golf swing.
After completing the sync/preset element, the first part of the golf swing sequence, the golfer’s elbow is naturally synced with the golfer’s side to LOAD-UP their golf swing, like the advice that Arnold Palmer gave President Eisenhower before a Pro-Am. The presetting of the wrists syncs the golfer’s right elbow (in the right-hander’s case) with the shoulders, shown above in the sketch. From the LOCK Position, the golfer only has to take-up the handle of the club to the top of the swing to LOAD-UP. LOADING-UP is the second part in the golfer’s swing sequence.
In the take-up, or the LOAD-UP, the YAW element in my book, it is important to determine the golfer’s swing path or the slot. The slot is different for each golfer. This slot target is based on the relationship between the arm (upper arm) and the forearm. In my case, since my arm and forearm are similar in length, and my slot target is below my right shoulder, or my right underarm. To learn more about the swing path, read my article about determining your Swing Path.
NOTE: The slope of the swing path or slot (too steep or too flat) can greatly influence the path of the golf ball with a hook or draw with a flatter swing path or slice or fade with a steeper swing path. This is covered in book.
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